A Valedictory Court Session for Nigeria’s retiring Chief Justice, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola (GCON), is scheduled on Thursday, August 22, 2024, according to an apex court spokesman.
Festus Akande further stated that the Supreme Court’s legal year 2023/2024 ended on Friday, July 19, 2024.
He stated that the court went on vacation on Monday, July 22, 2024, and would resume for the first term of the 2024/2025 legal year on Monday, September 23, 2024.
Akande went on to say that the ceremony to bring in the new legal year 2024/2025 is slated for Monday, September 30th, 2024.
Then, in June 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari named Ariwoola as acting CJN following Justice Tanko Muhammad’s resignation due to health. Ariwoola was sworn in October of the same year after being confirmed by the Senate.
Ariwoola was appointed a Justice of Nigeria’s Supreme Court in 2011. He served as a Justice of the Court of Appeal from 2005 to 2011, after being elevated from the State High Court of Oyo State.
He studied law at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in Ile Ife, where he graduated with honours in July 1980. Ariwoola was called to the Bar in July 1981 and admitted to the Supreme Court of Nigeria as a Solicitor.
Ariwoola will be 70 on August 22, 2024.